Fortune Favors the Duke
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3.9 • 16 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Ella Quinn, Amelia Grey, and Bridgerton comes the first in a new historical romance series with all your favorite tropes:
•Friends to lovers romance
•Forbidden romance
•Reluctant dukes
•Tight-knit family saga
The new Duke has a proper scandal brewing.
Quinton Errington is perfectly happy teaching at Cambridge, with his elder brother carrying the duties of being the Duke of Wesley. But when a trip to celebrate Wesley's last week of bachelorhood ends in tragedy, Quinton, who becomes the Duke, would give anything to have his brother back.
Wesley's would-be bride, Catherine Greatheart, is left heartbroken and alone. Her grandmother has fallen ill, and Catherine has nowhere left to turn but to the family she was so close to being part of. The new Duke is kind, and she could use a friend.
Between learning how to be the head of his family, mourning his brother, and trying not to fall in love with his late-brother's fiancée, Quinton will need some help—and it's a good thing he's not alone.
"Flawless storytelling! Vayden is a new Regency powerhouse."—Rachel Van Dyken, #1 New York Times bestselling author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grief, illness, and schemes unite a duke and his late brother's betrothed in the endearing Regency romance that launches Vayden's Cambridge Brothers series (after The Temptation of Grace). Following the death of Quinton Errington's older brother, Avery, Quinton must leave his job as a Cambridge professor to reluctantly become the new Duke of Wesley. Catherine Greatheart, Avery's fiancée, grieves the loss of her love, but she's thankful she has her grandmother to lean on—until tragedy strikes. When her grandmother has a stroke, Catherine's cousin, Lord Bircham, whom she hasn't seen since childhood, is dispatched to take over as trustee of her estate, a blow to Catherine who has been overseeing everything for years. Hoping to ease Catherine's mind, Quinton agrees to investigate Bircham's character—but the real concern is their growing feelings for each other. Quinton worries that, because Avery died before he could make Catherine a duchess, London's gossipmongers will assume Catherine only wants him for his title, and Catherine fears her feelings are inappropriate. But, with the meddling of his mother and friends, their union soon seems inevitable. A scheming companion adds a bit of suspense to this otherwise sweet and tame romance. Readers looking for light Regency fare will be pleased.
